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Need For Speed Payback PC Review – Get Your Motor Running

23Nov

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Need For Speed Payback PC Review – Get Your Motor Running

Need For Speed Payback developed by Ghost Games and published by EA supposedly brings high-octane stunts, devastating car battles and jaw dropping set piece moments. As well as build upon the iconic customisation that the Need For Speed franchise is famous for. So, how does the latest game with the Need For Speed title fare? Does it live up to the hype like a Supercar? or does it suffer from turbo lag and struggle to get going? Let's find out. Gameplay With Need For Speed Payback you are given the standard revenge trope, person gets betrayed, person builds up a reputation to take down the betrayer. Set in the bright and varied city of Fortune Valley you take control of a number of racers; Tyler “Ty” Morgan the natural-born Racer, Jessica “Jess” Miller the Wheelman always on the ...

Aaero Developer Makes Move Into Self Publishing

23Nov

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News & Updates

Aaero Developer Makes Move Into Self Publishing

Developer, Mad Fellows have announced that they're moving into self publishing, and also detail the features in a new Aaero DLC. Starting with the ships, there are going to be three new ships introduced to the game which will be purely cosmetic and available to purchase individually for £0.69 and should be available before the end of 2017. The names of the ships are, 'Sol', 'Comet', and 'Phaser' and were named by the Aaero Twitter community. Mad Fellows Creative Director, Paul Norris in a press release had this to say about the ships. “We wanted to respond to the call for more ships but also avoid fragmenting the leader-boards. Our answer was optional cosmetic ship skins. You can buy just the one/ones you like and, if you prefer to stick with the original, you’re not at any so...

Dead Synchronicity Tomorrow Comes Today – Launches Digitally

22Nov

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Dead Synchronicity Tomorrow Comes Today – Launches Digitally

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today has landed itself onto the Nintendo Switch system and is available to download from the eShop. Developer, Fictiorama Studios originally pushed Dead Synchronicity on PC, Mac, Linux, iPad, Android, and PS4, but has, as of yesterday, launched onto the Nintendo Switch in collaboration with Stage Clear Studio. The PC edition of the title was published by Daedalic Entertainment, and the PS4, and Nintendo Switch version is published by BadLand Games. The title finds players within a dark, and artistic point-and-click world as they control a man on a mission to recover his identity by exploring the two events that have brought the world to the edge of collapse. One of the events brought a collection of natural disasters to light, with the second event...

Oure Review – Beautiful, Majestical And Pointless

21Nov

By KevinNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Oure Review – Beautiful, Majestical And Pointless

Oure is the new release from Heavy Spectrum. All you need to do is fly around and save the dying world that your parents live in. Simples. Time to slip into a nice silk kimono and zen my way through the game. Gameplay Oure is a fairly simple concept to grasp. You are a little girl sent to a new world to save the world you and your parents currently live in. No pressure. Your new world is a cloud city and clouds are your friends. When you pass through the portal you turn into what can only be described an a flying elongated fox with a dodgy moustache. You're supposed to be a dragon, a Chinese one, one of the long ones. Your dragon flies effortlessly around, but make sure you conserve stamina for long climbs and boosting. Oure moves around as effortlessly as your dragon, go places, explore...

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Available This Week

20Nov

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News & Updates

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Available This Week

Get ready because the long awaiting Animal Crossing Pocket Camp is arriving onto iOS and Android devices this week on the 22nd November 2017. On the 24th of October 2017, Nintendo announced that the mobile edition of Animal Crossing would be arriving in November. Well it's November now. The game is a toned down version of the popular Animal Crossing titles, and sees you trying to build a camp that villagers wish to flock too, and will require you to travel around collecting items, finishing quests, and even crafting. The title will be free to download and play, but will feature in-game transactions going by the name, Leaf Tickets. While not much is known about the cost of purchasing Leaf Tickets with real world money, we do know that using Leaf Tickets can be used to purchase new mat...

Sea of Thieves New Trailer Shows How to be a Pirate

17Nov

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Sea of Thieves New Trailer Shows How to be a Pirate

Sea of Thieves, developed by Rare, Published by Microsoft Studios, is due to arrive on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox One X with no release date really specified except that we know it's due to arrive in 2018 sometime. The latest trailer shows off a lot of in-game footage showing real players enjoying the various different functions you can perform, such as shooting at skeletons, and other enemy player pirates, digging for treasure, drinking grog, being thrown up on (If that's your thing), being fired out of a cannon, and much more. Graphically the game is looking wonderful, and we get a good long look at Rare's incredible water system as you get to see the waves fluidly reacting to weather and boats. The game is also going to be available in 4K HDR, and is enhanced for the Xbox One X and wi...

Train Simulator 2018 Hits the Rails Both Digitally And Physically

17Nov

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Train Simulator 2018 Hits the Rails Both Digitally And Physically

Train Simulator 2018 launches onto PC with a new launch trailer. Developed by Dovetail Games, the latest simulation title, Train Simulation 2018 sees players being able to take control of various types of trains. Whilst, controlling a plethora of controls in front of them as they travel to various destinations, chugging along on real-world routes ranging from North Wales Coastal to Peninsula. Players will be able to play as the actual driver of the train, the engineer, even a passenger. They will also be able to create their own routes and download content from the Steam Store. Additionally, for a whopping, £4,541.76 you can purchase 405 DLC's. However, you can purchase those DLC's individually from £3 to about £25 each. So if you like getting your conductor hat on, be sure to che...

Expand Review – A Monochrome Masterpiece

16Nov

By JohnNo Comments

PC Reviews

Expand Review – A Monochrome Masterpiece

Expand is a puzzle based game, published and developed by Chris Johnson. It made its debut on PC back in 2015 (more than likely under the radar for most of you), and now it’s made its ‘debut’ on consoles (also probably under the radar for most of you). I am a bit of a puzzle fan (usually in physical form rather than video games), so let’s not waste any time and get stuck in. Gameplay The Premise of Expand is very simple, guide a pink square through a series of puzzles and mazes to collect a pink ‘quadrant’. There are 4 of these quadrants to collect each of which come with a different type of level (or puzzle), each of which take approx. 30 mins to complete. Then there's one final area which combines all of these as a ‘final challenge’ of sorts. Expand is unusual in the way that it’...

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard – Forgotten But Not Gone

16Nov

By StuartNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard – Forgotten But Not Gone

Something that has always interested me as a gamer and reviewer is looking back on the older console generations and picking up the games you may have missed the first time around. I’ve done it before and discovered some great games. Some great older games are now some of my all time favourites, with the likes of Mario Kart 64 and Metal Slug 3 being members of that list. Other times though you do have to admit that the older games you missed out on really aren’t worth it. It really doesn’t help that I often go out of my way to buy a terrible game. Parody and comedic games are something I find very interesting indeed. Oddly terrible games have become a genuine interest of mine. The incredibly dull Duke Nukem Forever was definitely on the right wavelength but it’s just so bad I barely mad...

16Nov

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Real Farm Review – Hoedown or Plough Up

Real Farm by development studio Triangle Studios (Aerea, The Bug Catcher, Uphill Rush) and published by Soedesco (Tricky Towers, The Girl and the Robot), is the latest foray into the agricultural sim marketplace of, you've guessed it, farming! With the farming sim world pretty much dominated by Giants Software's Farming Simulator franchise, is there enough of a want for another simulator of this type? Gameplay Real Farm is set in America although in-game currency can be selected as either dollars or euros. Having watched the trailer countless times prior to being given the chance to review the game, I couldn't wait to explore the countryside in stunning 4k all the while bobbing about on my tractor. From sowing crops, tending to livestock and then buying and selling using the re...